European success stories

Mise à jour le 23/05/2018

With the support of the French Agency for Biodiversity, and in partnership with the International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO), the International Office for Water intends to put on line a web portal dedicated to the best practices implemented in the European Union regarding drinking water catchments protection and fight against diffuse pollution in these areas.

This portal intends to stimulate a better networking between stakeholders involved in this activity, centralize best practices, and disseminate resources (data, documentation…) with the objective to create an efficient community of European actors.

In France, drinking water catchments are protected against diffuse pollution thanks to actions engaged in the whole catchment area and within a very precise legal framework.

To provide different and attractive approaches, we would like to collect examples of operations of drinking water catchment protection (fight against diffuse pollution) in the other EU Member-States.

Therefore, International Office for Water put an online survey in 2017 in order to collect success stories:

http://enquetes.oieau.fr/index.php/897587?lang=en

Title	Country
Farm Manure Management in Lower Saxony and its role in FAIRWAY	Allemagne
WATERPROTECT VESTER HJERK	Danemark
Reviewing best practice in the delivery of good drinking water quality using a prevention-led approach	Royaume-Uni
WATERPROTECT Lower Llobregat river	Espagne
WATERPROTECT Mara river	Roumanie
WATERPROTECT Val Tidone	Italie
South Water Syndicate	Luxembourg
Protection of drinking water catchment in Finland	Finlande
Drinkwater protection file Valtherbos/Noordbargeres	Pays-Bas
Till Fell Sandstone Groundwater Body	Royaume-Uni

Survey is still active, do not hesitate to share it to your european contacts tasked with the protection of catchment areas and fight against diffuse pollutions. For more information on the survey or to collect the addresses of the persons who answered the survey: animation-captages@oieau.fr